This is just plain ridiculous- my child gets a Vegemite sandwich some days – who cares – if this is what your child wants let them have it. It’s better than a bag of chips or a cookie!!!!

Well its great ot hear thet Japan has lunchbox judgers also. The best response is “If you are unhappy with the lunchbox that I prepare please feel free to make up a suitable on daily for my child and save me the trouble. Please let me know when you would like to start making and supplying their lunch. Many thanks”

That is very rude!! Who is a teacher to dictacte what a child eats. If he likes what was packed and eats it there is no issue, you shouldn’t need to follow everyone else.

Very wrong of him to do that. But that’s the difference between Australia and others countries, we are accepting and cultured

My kids love its taste and my daughter love to keep it in her lunch box nothing wrong in it

Wouldn’t this be a form of racism? Slamming an Aussie icon just cos it wasn’t Japanese? At the very least it’s a form of bullying and shouldn’t be tolerated

What ur kidding right i love vegimite sandwhich they are bloody amazing

It depends on where you are – vegemite sandwiches are good for lunches here in Australia. If I was in another country I would try and stick to what the other kids have so my child did not get bullied over it.

What ever happened to everything in moderation & that good old thing where people minded their damn business ????

the world is getting out of control. vegemite sandwiches is what everyone needs to put a smile on their faces. Throw in a banana too!

I would have purposely sent them again and again with extra to share with the class

Nothing wrong with “the good old vegemite sandwich” here in Australia, no, but the context in the above story was a bit different. It would be sad for her child to be bullied for not having the kind of lunch their friends had.

On the one hand, I think it’s great that schools and kindys in Japan are promoting healthy eating. On the other, it’s another thing for busy mothers to feel pressured about. I’ve made cute animal shaped foods for my kids a few times, but that was a treat. I’d hate for it to be something I was expected to do, and shamed for not doing, every single day. I give my kids pretty healthy food (or their Dad does, since keeping our children fed isn’t my exclusive responsibility just because I’m the one with a uterus) but it’s not always going to look pretty, because I have a life and other things to do.

A different culture I guess but he would have known that the family wasn’t from Japan!

Oh this is nuts! School lunches are started to get out of control!

It’s a completely different culture and I think that the teacher shouldn’t have said anything

WOW! WOW! and WOW! The good old vegemite sandwich is good enough I say. Clearly people have a lot of time in Japan to produce such lunches. As someone who is clearly not native to Japan, they should be allowed to send what they like for their child. I thought it was a good, healthy lunch. And let’s not forget the child who may only eat Vegemite!!

My kids love vegemite sandwiches.

I grew up on vegemite sandwiches. Every culture is different and has there go-to lunches!

My son went to school with a vegemite sandwich, muesli bar, bottle water and a piece of fruit. Always came home with the fruit and the water bottle. It was what he wanted and so I made it. This teacher had no right to criticize the meal if that’s what the child wants.

Food is food. Nothing wrong with a sandwich. Rice can be just as unhealthy as a sandwich.